V079: Amerika
Pinguin Film, VHS (NTSC), color, in German and English (no subtitles), 3:00:00.
Time | Description |
0:00 | Beginning of Program 1, "Hysterie einer Eroberung" |
2:00 | Footage of Beatles performing "I saw her standing there" |
3:10 | Tour group visiting Elvis's home in TN, scenes of Graceland, recording of "Love me tender" |
6:45 | Footage of Elvis singing "You ain't nothing but a hound dog" |
7:40 | Interview |
8:30 | Footage of Little Richard singing "Night train" |
10:00 | Footage of the Rolling Stones (?) singing "It's all over now" |
11:30 | Interview |
11:40 | Footage of the Beatles performing "Roll over Beethoven" |
12:15 | Footage of Chuck Berry performing "Johnny be good" |
13:15 | Interview |
14:10 | Beatles perform "Please please me" |
15:55 | Dvorák's New World Symphony, interviewer discusses Dvorák's interest in music by black Americans |
17:25 | Footage of Duke Ellington; interview |
19:25 | "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing" |
20:15 | Photos of Henry Cowell accompanied by his music |
21:00 | Interview with someone discussing Marcel Duchamp in German |
21:55 | Scenes from San Francisco's downtown |
23:00 | French artists who gathered in New York during WWI |
23:50 | "Marcel Duchamp, John Cage. Discs, Nudes Descending a Staircase, 1947" |
24:30 | "Man Ray, Darius Milhaud. Ruth, Roses and Revolvers" |
25:25 | "Max Ernst, Paul Bowles. Desire" |
26:25 | Pierre Boulez conducting |
27:30 | Group rehearsing Varese's Ionization |
28:20 | Interview with Frank Zappa (?) discussing his album, Suzy Creamcheese, interspersed with footage from various performances |
32:00 | Footage of a Jimi Hendrix concert in Britain |
34:00 | Film music recording studio, orchestra recording |
36:10 | Interviewee discusses European émigrés who became film composers, including Korngold |
36:55 | Footage from Robin Hood |
38:05 | Footage from Laura |
38:30 | Interview with David Raksin, who composed the score to Laura; footage from the film |
42:00 | Photos of Charlie Chaplin; Carribean song plays in background |
44:30 | End of Part 1 |
45:10 | Beginning of Part 2, "Verlorene Unschuld" |
46:50 | Dancers dancing to Stravinsky's Petrushka; Egyptian-style film with dancers |
47:50 | Eiffel Tower |
48:30 | Early b/w films; jazz dancer; jazz combo performance |
50:30 | Interview |
51:15 | Swing band |
51:35 | Interview |
52:00 | Early jazz performers; urban scenes; theater interiors |
56:45 | Interview, discussing Milhaud and the influence of jazz on western art music |
58:10 | More footage of early jazz performances, posters, photos, etc. |
58:45 | Interview, discusses Debussy ("Golliwog's Cakewalk") and others working in Paris in 1920s |
1:01:15 | Posters of Satie; various European art music plays in background |
1:02:45 | Interview with Ernst Krenek in his Mödling apartment; he discusses his Jonny spielt auf |
1:03:40 | Footage from the opera |
1:04:00 | More jazz and posters; interview |
1:04:50 | Steamboat; interview; scenes of New Orleans and its jazz clubs |
1:09:50 | Interviewer discusses European roots of American jazz |
1:11:15 | New Orleans funeral, interview |
1:13:50 | Orchestra performing Ives; interview |
1:16:45 | Interview, discussion of Ives |
1:17:35 | Orchestra performing Ives |
1:18:20 | Leonard Bernstein conducts an orchestra |
1:20:00 | Posters of Mahler's engagement at the New York Met |
1:21:30 | Interview with Zemlinsky's widow (?); she discusses his early experiences with Schoenberg |
1:24:30 | Interview |
1:25:15 | Jazz performers; interview |
1:27:45 | Footage of the Supremes |
1:29:00 | Carribean music closes the program |
1:30:30 | End of Part 2 |
1:31:05 | Beginning of Part 3, "Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung" |
1:32:30 | Street performers in New York's Grand Central Station |
1:34:00 | Reggae performers; German interviewed regarding rap |
1:36:30 | Rappers, street musicians; interview |
1:40:00 | Cellist duet; interview with a composer; clips from his works (?) |
1:43:40 | Work for prepared piano, photos of Cage; interviews with an American and with a Japanese composer speaking German |
1:45:00 | Footage of Cage |
1:49:00 | Performance art; interview with Japanese composer |
1:52:00 | Interview with LaMonte Young |
1:53:40 | Footage of The Velvet Underground from November 1965; interview, Young discusses compositional process with Lou Reed |
1:56:00 | Another group performs, interview |
1:59:00 | Interview with Brazilian guitarist; another interview; guitarist is joined by a Viennese violinist |
2:03:30 | Interview with violinist and with string bass player |
2:05:00 | Street percussionist; interview |
2:07:00 | Saxophonist; interview |
2:08:30 | Footage from Jazz Fest Wien, music videos |
2:11:50 | Punk bands, Sex Pistols, person interviews mocks them and all British bands |
2:14:00 | Carribean music closes the show |
2:15:00 | End of Program 3 |
2:16:00 | Beginning of Program 4, "Reise ohne Wiederkehr" |
2:17:00 | Tap dancers |
2:18:45 | Pianist playing rag |
2:19:35 | Footage from An American in Paris; tap dancers |
2:20:30 | Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue performed in the Musikverein (Vienna), photos of Alban Berg |
2:23:30 | Orchestra performs Ravel's Bolero in the Musikverein |
2:24:50 | Photos of Schoenberg, footage of the Malibu party home movies (see V034) |
2:25:30 | Interview with David Raksin discussing his experience as Schoenberg's pupil, Schoenberg's meeting with Charlie Chaplin, their association with Oscar Levant |
2:26:35 | Footage of house on Rockingham and study replica at the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, Verklärte Nacht plays in background |
2:28:00 | Footage from Straub's film of Moses und Aron (see V010); interview with Raksin discussing Schoenberg's experience with Irving Thalberg over The Good Earth |
2:31:30 | Jazz performers; interviews |
2:43:00 | Klezmer band, photos of Jewish musicians |
2:46:30 | Native American singers |
2:48:30 | Reggae singers; interview |
2:50:30 | Cajun music; interview with an accordion player; interview, discussion of Zydeco music |
2:53:30 | Footage of Canray Fontenot, Zydeco violinist; interview, discusses popularity of Zydeco music in Europe |
2:59:00 | Footage of New Orleans; Carribean music closes program |
3:00:15 | End of Program 4 |